RAIDERS Boone, Frank Ogden

Merrill's Marauders
By Gavin Mortimer

Craig Robertson

Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Boone
  • FORENAME
Frank Ogden
  • UNIT
1st Raider Battalion (Company E)
  • RANK
Sergeant
  • NUMBER
270604
  • DATE OF DEATH
15th September 1942
  • AGE
21
  • GRAVESITE
Elan Memorial Park, Lime Ridge, Pennsylvania, USA. Plot Mapel Lawn
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 16.07.1921
father Paul Clayton Boone (1895-1963)
mother Sue Agnes (nee Ogden) Boone (1898-1984)
Next of kin - Mother, Mrs. Sue A. Boone, Route 2, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
enlisted 06.03.1939
KIA Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
 

DATE OF DEATH:

15-Sep-1942

FINDAGRAVE:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133001986/frank-ogden-boone

SERVICE HISTORY:

BOONE, Frank O., Sgt, 521/745/653/651 SN: 270604
Born: 16 Jul 1921 Pennsylvania
Enlisted USMC: 08 Mar 1939 (Home of Record: Route 2, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania)
Died: 16 Sep 1942 (KIA, Guadalcanal Island, British Solomon Islands)
Interred: Elan Memorial Cemetery, Lime Ridge, Columbia County, PA (Section: Maple Lawn)

Headquarters, Eastern Recruiting Division, 405 New Custom House, Philadelphia, PA
Mar 1939 Pvt, Hq, ERD, Phila., PA “8Mar39; 8, Jdenl at RS Phila., Pa.; to RD, MB, Parris Island, S.C.”
Recruit Depot Detachment, Marine Barracks, Parris Island, SC
Mar 1939 Pvt, RD Det, MB, Parris Island, SC “8Mar39; 9, Jdenl fr Phila., Pa.; 9-31, RI”
Apr 1939 Pvt, RD Det, RD, MB, Parris Island, SC “RI”
May 1939 Pvt, RD Det, RD, MB, Parris Island, SC “5, qual SS; 1-12, RI; 13, to 1stMarBrig, FMF, MB, Quantico, VA”

Company D, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Brigade, Marine Barracks, Quantico, VA
May 1939 Pvt, Co D, 1stBn, 5thMar, 1stMarBrig, MB, Quantico, VA “8Mar39; 14, jdfr RDep Det, MB, Parris Island, SC; 18-31, Msm.”
Jun-Jul 1939 Pvt, Co D, 1stBn, 5thMar, 1stMarBrig, MB, Quantico, VA
Aug 1939 Pvt, Co D, 1stBn, 5thMar, 1stMarBrig, PA State Mil Res, Indiantown Gap, PA “11-31, Msm.”
Sep-Dec 1939 Pvt, Co D, 1stBn, 5thMar, 1stMarBrig, MB, Quantico, VA “19-26Nov, fur; 28-31Dec, fur”
Jan-Feb 1940 Pvt, Co D, 1stBn, 5thMar, 1stMarBrig, FMF, 5thMar Camp, Culebra, P.R.
Mar-Jun 1940 Pvt, Co D, 1stBn, 5thMar, 1stMarBrig, MB, Quantico, VA “17-31Mar, fur; 18Apr, qual MM”
Jul-Sep 1940 PFC, Co D, 1stBn, 5thMar, 1stMarBrig, MB, Quantico, VA “18Jul, pro (temp appt);
Company D, 1st Battalion, 5thMarines, 1stMarine Brigade, FMF, In the Field
Oct 1940 PFC, Co D, 1stBn, 5thMar, 1stMarBrig, FMF, NS, Gtmo Bay, Cuba
Nov 1940 PFC, Co D, 1stBn, 5thMar, 1stMarBrig, FMF, Aboard USS HENDERSON, Culebra, P.R.
Dec 1940 PFC, Co D, 1stBn, 5thMar, 1stMarBrig, FMF, NS, Gtmo Bay, Cuba
Jan 1941 PFC, Co D, 1stBn, 5thMar, 1st MarBrig, FMF, On board USS MC CAWLEY, Culebra, P.R. “3Sep40; 8, jdfr Co B, 1stBn, 5thMar, 1stMarBrig, FMF, NS, Gtmo Bay, Cuba”
Company D, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, FMF, Marine Barracks, Quantico, VA
Apr 1941 PFC, Co D, 1stBn, 5thMar, 1stMarDiv, FMF, MB, Quantico, VA “11-30, on fur.”
Jul 1941 Cpl, Co D, 1stBn, 5thMar, 1stMarDiv, FMF, On board USS LITTLE, Miami, FL “Emb on bd USS MC KEAN at Quantico, Va. On 17Jun41, for such d as the CinC, Atlantic Fleet may direct.”
Oct 1941 Cpl, Co D, 1stBn, 5thMar, 1stMarDiv, FMF, MB, Quantico, VA “24-27, temp d on bd USS MANLEY in conn with Navy Day exercises at Washington, D.C.”

Company D, 1stSeparate Battalion, FMF, Amphibious Forces, Atlantic Fleet, Marine Barracks, Quantico, VA
Jan 1942 Cpl, Co D, 1stSepBn, FMF, AFAF, MB, Quantico, VA “6-13, on bd USS COLHOUN for duty under the CinC, Atlantic Fleet”

Company E, 1st Marine Raider Battalion, Amphibious Corps, Atlantic Fleet, Marine Barracks, Quantico, VA
Apr 1942 Sgt, Co E, 1stMarRdrBn, ACAF, MB, Quantico, VA “1, entrained at MB, Quantico, Va.; 1-4, enroute; 4, arr & detrained at MCB, San Diego, Calif.; 4-11, at MCB, San Diego, Calif.; 12, emb on bd USS ZEILIN at San Diego, Calif.; 13, sailed; 14-27, passage; 28, arr at NS, Tutuila, Samoa; 30, disemb and encamped at Tutuila, Samoa”
Company E, 1st Marine Raider Battalion, FMF, In the Field
Jul 1942 SgtCo E, 1stMarRdrBn, FMF, In the Field (Tutuila, Samoa & Noumea, New Caledonia) “4, emb on bd the USS HEYWOOD for transport fr Tutuila, Samoa to Noumea, New Caledonia; 25, emb on bd USS MANOWIA for spl assignment and sailed same date.”
Company E, 1st Marine Raider Battalion, 1st Marine Division, FMF, In the Field
Aug 1942 Sgt, Co E, 1stMarRdrBn, 1stMarDiv, FMF, In the Field (Tulagi, British Solomon Is)
Sep 1942 Sgt, Co E, 1stMarRdrBn, 1stMarDiv, FMF, In the Field (Guadalcanal, British Solomon Is) “16, Killed in Action at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands and buried in US Naval Cemetery on island, Row #?, Grave #?; GO#20 does not apply”
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